Short Stories
Contextual Vocabular
Authors
Conflict
Perspective
100
What is a motif in "Ghost Children"?
Answers may vary
100
What is a motif?
Something that is reoccuring in a text.
100
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
100
What conflict is Fight Club?
Man v Self, Man v Society
100
What are the different types of perspective?
First person, second person, third person (limited and omniscient)
200
Where does "American" take place?
In New Orleans
200
What is a foil character and give and example?
A complete opposite of a character thats bring out more of that characters personality. Example: Lois and Lucy, Lucy being the foil character
200
"Death by Landscape"
Margaret Atwood
200
Name conflict in "Death by Landscape"?
Man v Man, Man v Self, Man v Nature
200
What is the difference between third person limited and third person omniscient?
Limited- Only one characters feelings Omniscient- following all the characters feelings
300
What is a theme of Fight Club?
answers may vary
300
Give two themes in Fight Club.
Consumerism, Identity
300
"Ghost Children"
D. Winston Brown
300
Name and describe conflict "Burying Jeremy Green"?
Man v Society. Different ways children are able to cope with tragedy compared to the way adults do.
300
What is the perspective of the story "Death by Landscape"?
Third person Limited
400
Who are the main characters in "Burying Jeremy Green"?
Trick question.....is a bunch of kids.
400
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is the narrator attitude. Mood is the readers feeling.
400
"Where I Slept"
Steven Elliot
400
List all the internal conflicts?
Man v Self
400
What is the perspective of "Fight Club"?
First person
500
What do the landscapes represent in "Death by Landscape"?
They represent the life of Lois.
500
Give example irony in Fight Club?
The narrator wants to be so much like Tyler but in the end the narrator wants to kill him.
500
"American"
Joshua Clarke
500
List all the external conflicts?
Man v Man, Man v Society, Man v Nature
500
What does the first person perspective of "Burying Jeremy Green" provide to the reader?
To make it easier for the reader to understand while children do and act the way they do.
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